LINGUIST List 9.1010

Thu Jul 9 1998

Qs: Bilingualism, Fulani, Syllabification

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Dear listers:
I am working on establishing a unifyied definition of the concept
"bilingual", so I need to count with as much basic definitions as possible.
My intention is to build up the concept from current notions. Ill post my
results.
Thank you in advance,
Valeria Opazo
Translation Program
Universidad de La Serena
vopazochoapa.cic.userena.cl

Hello,
My name is Rebecca Murphy and I work for a translation agency. I'm
searching for a linguist who speaks the language Fulani (spoken in
Western Africa..Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, etc.). I need a short piece of
information translated and I'm quickly running low on time. If you
have any knowledge of such a person, or a path to follow in order to
find such a person, please reply. The language is also called Fulfulde,
Fula, Fulbhe...the list goes on. Mainly it seems that the form I want
would be from a former British Colony in Western Africa.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you,
Rebecca Murphy
Corporate Translation Services
Vancouver, WA USA
rebeccactsv.com

Dear members
I am writing an MA dissertation on accentual variation in Japanese.
It is well-known that Japanese has dual syllable structure through
the concept of syllable and mora. So KEKKON 'wedding' has 4 moras
and 2 syllables. When the word is syllabified, the first part of
geminate is coda in the first syllable like /keQ.kon/. Could anyone
tell me why the geminate is parted like this.
Ken Murashima (K.Murashimancl.ac.uk)
Department of Speech
University of Newcastle upon Tyne